Sympathy card

 

Sympathy card for my forum friend who lost her husband recently...I made it with a machine embroidery freestanding lace hummingbird. Her husband loved hummers.

Map play mat

 

I got this world map fabric panel as well as the US map fabric panel from Kathy and made a play mat/quilt for my grandchildren (or whichever one claims it). I just quilted along the longitude and latitude lines on the map It was a quick and easy project and seems appropriate for our international family.

Quilted watercolor heart wall hangings

 

I was inspired by Gina at our Stitched Together group to try my hand at a watercolor heart wall hanging. I ended up making three of them. Leslie and Emelie picked the ones they wanted, and I get the third one. I quilted them with my embroidery machine. I used border print fabric and the quilting was done with my embroidery machine.

First one finished in January, 2024

(claimed by Leslie & Sonja)

Second one finished in February, 2024

(claimed by Emelie & Julia)

Third one finished in June, 2024

This one is mine.

Hooded baby towel

 

Hooded baby towel for a shower gift using this tutorial:  HOW TO MAKE A HOODED TOWEL (youtube.com), but used a dinosaur applique pattern on the hood rather than machine embroidery as the video shows. The applique dinosaur is a Sindy Rodenmayer design from fatcatpatterns.com. The pattern is called Dino RAWR! I did reduce the size quite a bit. 

All Aflutter wall hanging

 

Another wall hanging inspired by a link Gina shared with the Stitched Together group. I think I'm the only one who fell in love with it enough to dive right in. The quilting is a bargello technique. I made freestanding lace butterflies rather than the applique ones called for on the pattern.

IFAQH hearts

 

So far this year I have made quite a few quilted hearts. Most of them are for the IFAQH project (IFAQH.com). A few of these are machine embroidery. The others are machine quilted.

Machine embroidery

Machine embroidery

Machine embroidery

Birthday, Mother's Day and Thank you cards

April birthday cards (cross stitch) for Iris, Leslie, Susan, Kathy; and 3 Mother’s Day cards plus a thank you card (Kathy stitched the cross stitch motif and I made the card) for Mel who gave us so much CCS stash.

Birthday card for Iris

Cross stitch by Durene Jones

Inside of Iris' BD card

Birthday cards for Leslie and Kathy

Mother's Day card for Shirley

Mother's Day card for Leslie

Mother's Day card for Emelie

Thank you card from me
 and Kathy for Mel